Maybe the best photographic advice I came across (forgetting the source) is to “Look for the light”. At first, this might seem the textbook kind of suggestion of always having the light come from behind. But this is different. Look for interesting light. This means looking for both the vivid light of sunrise/sunset, the diffuse […]
I’ve just got one week’s reading and discussion in, but I am enjoying the reading group that Ben Rimes has organized as Book CLub 106 (yes the connection to ds106 may be a thread, but it works for me!). I do not think I have ever been part of any kind of book club… oh […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Today’s ds106 Daily Create is a Drawing challenge, for which, as usual I reach for the Paper 53 app on my iPad. Make a detailed drawing of one of your own eyes. My plan was to take a self photo with my iPhone […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Today marks 10 years since my grandmother passed away. I had always told her I expected her to live to be 100, and she came darn close at 98, so I will round it up, and call it achieved. I spent a chunk […]
Today’s ds106 Daily Create Challenge is a video one: Uh Oh, Today is the 13th. Make a video of you avoiding a superstition. It might not be majorly superstitious since its not Friday, which usually calls for insolent ignorant teenagers and a monster in the lake. I decided to find something other than the familiar […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Today’s ds106 Daily Create Challenge was a photographic one: I’ve Been Down So Long”¦ Take a Photo that represents the essence of Blues music I wrote this one in myself, metaphoric challenges are some of the more interesting ones to me. IMHO, this […]
All the news that is fit to make up… Today’s Daily Create Challenge was writing something by remixing content from different sources: Find 3 news stories. Use words from second paragraph of each, make 3 stanzas of 3 lines,
This video shared by my newest, bestest friend in the UK, Mariana, captures my life’s philosophy @cogdog I hope you can see in US. New UK Ad – you may enjoy 🙂 http://t.co/v0zq6Rfl56 — Mariana (@mdvfunes) July 11, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMzgl0nFj3s It’s pretty simple, eh? And if you really want to get your Dog Game in […]
This week on Stranger Than Nature, your host, Nigel K. Levine, is deep in the jungle of Hokkaido, to film the flying mythical creature rumored to live here, Felinus Poptartus… Yes, today’s Daily Create challenge was another video one, two in a row, will the weak survive? For today the task was: Redub the audio […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Universities better get on the MOOC bus, because it is leaving the station… https://twitter.com/audreywatters/status/355031898264846336 "marketing was the main reason his institution was trying a MOOC" http://t.co/5C2ceqgeOA Jump on the bus now cause its going off a cliff — Alan Levine (@cogdog) July 10, […]
